strikes from above in libya as multinational force launches an aerial offensive against gadhafi forces with dozens reported killed. as needs national communities to stop government forces media is carrying out witness to his nation and i'm in the capital city of tripoli join need a few moments for an update on. the u.s. says its role in the military intervention in libya will be a limited one but that's not stop comparisons to the beginning of the two thousand and three iraq invasion. and russia all sides to put an end to the violence while turning forward intervention in libya is regrettable join me in

a few moments for the latest reaction from moscow. four pm in moscow i match reza keeping you on top of the day's top stories here on r t the u.s. says america and its allies have now effectively established a no fly zone over libya and halted an offensive by colonel moammar gadhafi forces against rebels in benghazi but the libyan leader is promising a long war against foreign forces he claims he's opened up weapons evos for anyone who wants to arm themselves or his policy or has the latest live from the capital tripoli he joins us now hello paula so the coalition says its efforts in libya are proving successful while witnesses reported further violence against the rebels what are you hearing. but we're just hearing reports of there are new airstrikes on the ground here we do know that military aircraft have been filling up with weapons

they have been loaded with weapons at american bases in italy and we're also hearing that bush planes are on the very cheapest country now the american military has confirmed that it's not some conventional. to steve earlier today now we have no confirmation exactly where those targets were but we do understand that at least some of them would be an airfield at the same time we're hearing that western reconnaissance tretton lights are keeping a firm eye on the southern part of the town of sirte and there they believe that there are ten tons of mustard gas still or up american officials have said they're in a good friend zone is firmly in place at the first thought of his multi-faceted operation is finished there are five countries that are participating the united states britain france italy and canada the united states have taken the charge at least for now it is responsible for making sure that all surface to air missile defense systems that libya has are destroyed and after that it will be handed over to other

nations but as we speak we are continuously to reports about the violence that is happening about two hundred kilometers to the east of the capital city tripoli and that's in the town and stronger we're hearing from eyewitnesses in the town is to quote him being raised to the ground apparently there are tanks inside the town there is heavy shelling this is the third day of fighting is happening there of course what we're also hearing is that forty people have been injured and ten people have been killed and it is this concern in terms of how many more civilians are going to be killed that is a before fighting people's minds we are still hearing from state television that forty eight civilians were killed and a hundred and fifty eight people were injured in the strikes by the international community so some of the questions of people here are banding about is number one why is the international community not focused on a facelift and stronger where the fighting today seems different him fight and number two just how many more innocent lives are going to be lost before the whole situation is dealt with and provide made

a defiant address on state television can you tell us more about that or you spoke for about fifteen minutes addressing the nation he was defiant in that address he said that this was an act of terrorism he said this. was and he urged his population to arm themselves against the agree since he said this we will not believe we will liberate this country so really what it's doing is getting in strong support and he said he is also trying to urge and many of his supporters around them he wants to present them with an image of a leader and has support in the international community and that is my mistake you also spoke about asian and african countries that support him he wasn't speaking why was the image of a giant gold first crushing an american fighting kids and that giant gold first is actually the monument that is at his military compound so he certainly does not seem as if he's going to me anyway by the international community's response was a good statement from the taliban they have condemned these strikes have also urged

it is not meek will not remain neutral but to get involved parties powers there live with the latest from tripoli thanks for that report. whereas other uprisings in the arab world saw people taking the lead that no longer seems the action in libya kiev harmon snow a war correspondent and former u.n. investigator thinks the libyan people have been cheated out of their own revolution and will be crushed by a u.s. led war machine. it's an absolute you know aggressive action by the western powers by the nato forces it's about arm sales minutes ago making sure that there's no popular uprising in libya or across the region this is really a very manipulated so-called conflict the people of libya are going to suffer the most and it won't be very long once they get out and before the people realize is that they have no control over their country because the united states and france and italy and britain have again it may be over quickly it may not by any united

states and nato will be there military might will prevail one way or the other across any popular uprising which they've already partially done by letting conducting roll over those rebel forces for a while that was a tactic by the united states and they can get kidnapped to kill some of those people and then we can justify attacking him this is the extent of this hypocrisy by the rest is and so they've been practically doing this. but decision to take direct action to enforce the libyan no fly zone was thrashed out at a summit of power structure hours before the first strikes our europe correspondent daniel bushell has more on the focus behind the operation odyssey dawn. france is taking a direct wrong role along with the u.k. it's already employed its rough. fighter jets in addition to that it's also added shoulder called planes the u.k. is helping with the navy blockade of libya him mrs westminster and cumberland will be helping with that it's also sent typhoon and tornado fighter jets italy is

expected to be a key base for operations naples and sicily also which is being used by american and canadian planes among them fighter jets and side has said it's also sending six f. sixteen fighter jets to help the operation several e.u. countries are coming around and saying they will take part in the operation in various ways belgium here is one is ill and norway is another country so we're seeing of the there is a coming through of the european nations on this operation germany actually abstained from the u.n. vote on imposing a no fly zone over libya airspace which would ground colonel gadhafi is jets and helicopters angela merkel the chancellor of germany it seems was then pulled into line at the paris summit yesterday and she came out and said that she pulls back the operation even though her country abstained and there's known to be a lot of public dissent in germany about that and here in belgium actually

yesterday i saw the first and she was demonstration just outside the where i am at the moment so public opposition is building and of course there are fears that this could turn into another iraq the west say that they're going to be very sort of precise and very quick about it but that was expected to be the case in iraq as well so there are growing concerns about that as well. u.s. cruise missiles are at the leading edge of the coalition operations in libya despite president obama promising that the u.s. role would be limited he also promised that no american ground forces will be will be deployed though there are some already pointing to similarities with the iraq invasion in two thousand and three he's got a cheeky and has the latest from washington. the pentagon says air defenses have been a severely disabled as they put it the u.s. has launched the missiles from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean targeting it could avi's air defenses and as the pentagon says the goal is to shape

the battlefield for the coalition forces to take further action basically what they're doing is they're clearing the sky is so that he is not able to shoot down any planes or the coalition forces in the pentagon also says that this is just the beginning of the operation and in the coming few days more nato ships will converge on that believe to inforce naval blockade and earlier french or fighter jets had carried out strikes on these ground forces and there have been reports of civilian casualties caused by the attacks and really alarming reports where president obama also reiterated is that there will be no u.s. troops on the ground although there are still lot of questions as to the limits of this intervention will it be enough for the coalition forces to do just this arm could be or will they go beyond that cool and what will be the outcome those are the questions everybody is asking and the fears are that this operation could be something more than just an effort to protect

a civilian severely as the wording of the u.n. resolution which was passed on thursday is basically all inclusive short of occupation of course in the fears are that certain actions taken by international forces could destabilize the situation even more shooting down khadafy fighter bombers and attacking other other military assets is one thing but fighting arming the rebels for example is something very different and we are getting reports that age of the military is shipping arms over the border to levy and gravels and the age of the military as we know is there e well influenced by washington and reports so it's not just the could all the army vs coalition forces this could the fear is that this could turn into a food. fledged civil war and the arms supplies could inflame the situation even further diplomatically speaking the white house has been trying very hard to not to appear as the driving force behind this military actions but they also stress again and again that it is not just the western powers going to war in libya they stress

that they have the support of the arab league although after this point it is not really clear what the actual input of arab countries is in this action but what they what they need and very much want is the arab countries assistance so that it doesn't appear as the west cracking down and yet another arab state a massive show of force and libya comes with the backing of the u.n. with a stated stated aim and protecting civilians but anti-war activist younes wenger believes it's more about saving oil supplies and people. think behind this operation there's already. a lot of. it's probably too late for a large intervention that will cover the oil fields of the axes to keep falling i think the goal is anything but humanitarian it's a standoff situation maybe. they have to divide the country and probably.

also the united states in law and great britain and. france are taking negotiating with. you a new government in the eastern part of libya but. they're also doing a great chance of. civil war situation because dialogue is certainly. the russians. are right to back up and just see what's what's unfolding now what's unfolding now appears to be. a larger scale military operation as we've seen in recent wars. toskala on coalition forces to refrain from using indiscriminate force in libya russian foreign ministry stressed it's unacceptable to use the un security council mandate for purposes other than protecting civilians archies peter all over has more. russia has expressed regrets over this

international intervention into libya in a statement by the foreign ministry they called on all sides to stop violence as soon as possible while russia has been against international intervention in libya pretty much since he started on rest in the country around a month ago now some circles of studs to voice concern over international intervention led by by britain france and the united states saying that it could be overstepping the the boundaries laid out by the u.n. security council resolution. kelo for the federation council the foreign affairs committee leader has said that in his own opinion he believes that the they all going too far with this action is being taken to resolution the number nine hundred seventy three its main goal was to defend the civilian population but not to punish the gadhafi regime or overthrow it so in that respect with think that nine hundred

seventy three resolution is mostly humanitarian resolution before humanitarian resolution then a full military resolution my personal concern he's that any military operation which is conducted by the west in the arab world can lead to a very predictable scenario like all the parties involved in the conflict they get together and start fighting against foreign invaders there were several examples of such scenarios in the history of the greater middle east so i think that we all have to be very cautious now and we all have to think first of all of that the political solution should go before a military solution we think there are regime has already lost its internal and international credibility but we think also that people will leave the.

he's in egypt on sunday before heading off to algeria and both of those countries of course libya is there to discuss deals. between russia and egypt and algeria no it's his first visit to egypt since the revolution there in january and he'll be watching what goes on in libya very very closely to see what russia's next move will be deals with this region the suffering the. uprisings and international intervention at the moment coalition forces. from the european strategic intelligence and security believes that's what they should limit the operation to. we have to focus on one thing the operation then didn't. the question of what will happen in libya after all this is clearly the

problem of the leader instance of problem of a nation and i consider this a problem of the leadership the leadership of the been because you can see and i tell you we don't know what is diluted political leadership of the because he can see it it's extremely possible asleep it is a trivial country as you know it's extremely possible that they have to reach the whole world and the leader of the ship in the influence of the benghazi consider just apply in the eastern part of it not on syria to tripoli or doing something but so clearly the disputed offer would be complicated but for the moment to point to you do to fix those things they're going to feel after the conflict when the first who settled on probably everything will depend of the supply of the arab countries if at the end of the day we are alone i mean the western bloc the so-called western block illegal we saw with any arab support it would be very difficult to explain the situation but if we can think we will be we have still been deceived lot of

countries an opinion with too many because wealthy i think the thing could be a good girl could r.p. has promised international forces or long drawn out conflict saying he was armed the civilian population or his military contributor says libya could become another open ended commitment for the allies and draws parallels with afghanistan. libya can be turned so great explorers did as the main transit point of cocaine from latin america to africa and tripoli shores could effectively use the disguise of the military an international military presence inserting violence into and making libya into another afghanistan in another international drug trafficking hub that's the main concern not only to russia but it should be most informers foremost for american and european allies any military involvement is akin to the creeping

mission with the open ended commitment which which in effect will result from a no fly zone no drive zone then it's a small military these building peacemaking and eventually it will be bowed down to the again to the american military open ended commitment to africa because like another accounting insurgency which might wind up allegedly with the nation building as american successful or not nation building look no further than iraq and afghanistan. those are the latest developments for you in libya washington says u.s. and allied forces not affectively establish a no fly zone over the country halting the advance of cauchy's troops against rebels in benghazi and u.s. france and britain targeted the libyan leader's forces with air strikes and dozens of cruise missiles the operation followed a summit in paris where twenty nations agreed to do everything necessary to make it out in respect of a u.n.

security council resolution demanding a cease fire in libya in return khadafi vowed to a long war against the international coalition and has now promised to arm his people by opening weapons that would be in t.v. you quoted armed forces command as saying forty eight people have been killed one hundred fifty wounded in the assault campaign marks the biggest military intervention in the arab world since the vision in iraq eighteen years ago. stay up to date with all the events unfolding in libya on our twitter feed and facebook pages you can check out our regular updates and links to all the latest videos. he.

the official all see how he came to hong kong called talk from the only choose i'm still. on the go. video on demand. and. now in the call of you want to. call. turning now to japan and the fukushima nuclear plant our crews have managed to attach power cables to two of the damage reactors this could be an important breakthrough in efforts to prevent a catastrophe at the tsunami hit facility for more we turn to our he's live for bennett bennett who is live in the socket good to have you with us so does this mean they'll be able to restore cooling to the system. well no not yet even though they have attached power cables to two reactors reactors one and two there's no

guarantee because systems will actually work because they fear the electronics inside those cooling ponds and they have been damaged in the earth and are all the ensuing explosions at those reactors and so what they're doing is not just turning on their interest teacher just yet because they feel if they do it could now function even more in the consummate so that in very wary before starting a power supposed plant because they really need those plants to work and that's the only realistic way they're going to get the situation under control and the temperatures inside the reactor is that what they're doing in the meantime they're still spraying water into the reactors last night it's our department for thirteen hours straight two thousand tons of water into reaction number three and there's only so much that can do because already this evening we've heard that the pressure inside the reactor number three is increasing against that are going to have to vent it which means a controlled release of steam but with that release of steam is the escape to radiate radioactive substances as well now as for the radiation in the regions

around for. now i know that there have been traces of radioactive substances radioactive iodine in fact found in the water systems in the navy five neighboring prefectures including in tokyo even says traces of radioactive i mean it's not considered harmful if ingested just yet but will bring is that it's there it wasn't there before this disaster happened in focus shima the radiation levels inside the water are considered to be harmful what's more it's also spread to food products from the region to taiwan is just reported that some imported far boone's from japan do contain trace the radiation as well so it's a bit of a wind development there and that the anxiety now is regarding this radiation is now spreading to anger on the streets because today five hundred and two nuclear protesters joined demonstration an annual antiwar demonstration in tokyo. demonstrating against nuclear power they holding placards calling for the end of nuclear power in japan they're unlikely to have that demand met but the fukushima

plant once the situation is under control will certainly be closed because it's been rendered useless now chloe used the spring of water inside the reactor and since we've heard that the number of victims of last friday's tsunami has reached more than eight thousand now police say they can reach as high as fifteen thousand in one prefecture alone how so far as the operation going. on is still ongoing but it's more of a salvage operation a search operation now because they know what's the chances of finding her alive are pretty slim that a ninth day since the earthquake and tsunami struck having said that though they had what's been dubbed a miracle today an eight year old woman and a sixteen year old boy were found alive amongst the rubble in a town in an iraqi prefecture called ishinomaki which was one of the worst hit areas so at least two people have been found alive in the miracle because normally when these sort of things the search and rescue operations follow natural disasters like this incident after seventy two hours pretty unlikely to find the line five

percent survival rate after ninety six hours easy people survive for more than double that amount and that was even unseasonably wintry conditions and he said that though the death toll has been steadily rising it's now eight thousand one hundred thirty three and the number of missing is still over twelve thousand people all of that are possible we can all hope for more good news from japan now thanks very much for that perspective ivor bennett life for us and others like. why did your pen fail to predict the sheer size of the most powerful earthquake in its history before it happened already as you're getting rose in from the physics or via earth institute stay with us. it was several negative factors coincided first the japanese are perhaps best equipped in the world against earthquakes as they are living on a continuous seismic hotbed they predicted an earthquake but nobody expected the magna charta nine which is unique and normally not mature age is forecast the

difference between eight and nine is a logarithmic scale each digit increment means a ten time increase of energy so nature played a mean joke with them before the eleven march quake a quake on the ninth of march in the same zone was considerably weaker only seven point seven which is still big. they decided the forecast had been fulfilled and they relaxed a much stronger quake occurred soon afterwards. find out what other devastating surprises nature could have up its sleeve in the years ahead the full interview with you're going to coming up in a few minutes stay with us.

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